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Far from Home Feat. Philmore Greene & Nola Ade

from Die Wurzel by Neak

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lyrics

Neak (intro):
Where do we go from here?

Neak (verse):
We are so a long away from the promise today, what a miracle to be on this earth at my age, only brotherhood would come in a form of gang, what’s the reason why I’m dealt every card that I’m playing, saying, what point in history welcomed our laying down, sailing way across Atlantic imagine hearing the prayers of ancestors and nothing move, but waters and evilnesses evil merit conducted inherit laws and rules, systemic, that give way to a premise that everything black ain’t important this torment imprinted, hard to feel it when we shot on the film or rotten in prison petty crimes, collision, run its course if they never listen, soil bloody we building upon it then call it Christian, adore money we built it upon it the blackest niggas, floor cruddy enslaved bodies it all eclipses, the core body the principles every man is equal, truth irrelevant liars who not inclusive to bring this truth out for every men see what they did to chair-a-man, Fred Hampton, Mike Browns, Sean Bells, Philandos, and any black people that’s back home in Chicago.

Neak (chorus):
Be in love with today.
Cause nothing’s ever promised tomorrow today (repeated 2x)

Philmore Greene (verse):
See I’m a black man so I can’t do crushing with all my melanin, Philly is a veteran speaking it so eloquent, I’m confident, did it for years they called it arrogant, hatred is a mindset this love I’m inheriting, compare the life of a black to a barbarian, my sister had a child with my homie I was burying the cycle, we come through bare arms carrying, the whirlwind is murders but quiet is librarians, this is Malcolm mixed with Garveyism, by any means dodging the long arm of the system, 400 years they never saw us as a victim, now we off the ropes swinging for dear life, hit em, they bury black fathers in the grave or the jail, and kill a mother only son he ain’t make it to Yale, listen, we done drugged our feet through the blood dirt, if we wanna make it home it starts with us first, let’s go.

Neak (chorus):
Be in love with today.
Cause nothing’s ever promised tomorrow today (repeated 2x)

Nothing’s ever promised tomorrow today (repeated 2x)

Nola Ade (bridge):
Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today.
And nothing last forever, it don’t seem far away.
It hurts this life may be the only way (repeat 2x).

(excerpt):
If a human being, dares to be bigger, than the conditions to which he or she was born, it means so can you, and so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself, so you can internalize (foreign language), I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me…

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from Die Wurzel, released February 27, 2023
Produced by Neak

Karlton Sellers (electric guitar)

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If your father performed alongside Funk & Soul legends like James Brown & Sam Cooke, chances are being a product of your environment meant only one thing; following the path of musicianship set directly before him. Chicago-based Hip-Hop rapper and producer Neak draws vivid verbal portraits which find inspiration in the spirit of U.S. black culture and his own deep-seating personal experiences. ... more

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